This is a “blog platform” – a collaborative group blog authored by all parts of Ogilvy Group across the Asia-Pacific region.
In this conversation we invite colleagues, clients, competitors and anyone interested in the strategic use of social media, word of mouth marketing and digital innovation occurring in Asia to join.

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This is a “blog platform” – a collaborative group blog authored by all parts of Ogilvy Group across the Asia-Pacific region.

In this conversation we invite colleagues, clients, competitors and anyone interested in the strategic use of social media, word of mouth marketing and digital innovation occurring in Asia to join.

Marketing and communications are changing and we have insights, ideas and opinions about how this will go down.

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We also aggregate our Twitter feeds, video and pics, blog network, portfolio of best practices, the events we will attend and job openings here. It’s our platform – a jumping off place – our homebase for conversation. So, jump in, the water’s fine.

This is a “blog platform” – a collaborative group blog authored by all parts of Ogilvy Group across the Asia-Pacific region.
In this conversation we invite colleagues, clients, competitors and anyone interested in the strategic use of social media, word of mouth marketing and digital innovation occurring in Asia to join.
Marketing and communications are changing and we have insights, ideas and opinions about how this will go down.

Jeremy, an increasingly obsessed social gamer, has seen some innovative in-game branding from Chinese financial brands. Even before AMEX’s recent facebook/FarmVille cooperation, Chinese equivalent brands had been working with Chinese games in similar ways: take ICBC, for example, which “sponsors” the transactions of Jeremy’s vegetable trading on RenRen Farm (see attached screenshot).

Lance Wang (DI, SH) couldn’t be more excited about the two “dream” brand ambassadors that Johnie Walker have for their latest campaign. The Shanghai team have been working with none other than director Jia Zhangke and blogger Han Han for this blog and vlog campaign.

Dora Yin (DI, BJ) has seen that as an extension to its latest video campaign, Vancl has launched a Youku-based interactive competition which invites people to write comments to win prizes. With huge amounts of participants, the online clothing retailer is doing a great job of making its successful ad strategy go even further in social media.

Jeremy has been sure for a while the RFID tag integration is the future of the Web and even wanted to be the first to use it for branding. He was annoyed as well as excited, therefore, to see ASICS had beaten him to it with this New York Marathon campaign that plays personalized messages to people when they reach a certain point on the race route.

Dora Yin (DI, BJ) thinks everybody we should check out this promotional video from RenRen. While she isn’t a fan of the soundtrack, using video like this to convince brands to become more “social” is certainly a good thing.

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This is a “blog platform” – a collaborative group blog authored by all parts of Ogilvy Group across the Asia-Pacific region.
In this conversation we invite colleagues, clients, competitors and anyone interested in the strategic use of social media, word of mouth marketing and digital innovation occurring in Asia to join.
Marketing and communications are changing and we have insights, ideas and opinions about how this will go down.